Part of Michelangelo's work that adorns the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, Italy. Credit: Getty Images It's all in the details. The Sistine Chapel can now be viewed from a whole new ...

Michelangelo was just five years old in 1480 when Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the building of the Sistine Chapel. The chapel ... the Pope’s officer Biagio da Cesena complained about the nudity.

Da Vinci was two decades senior and had already ... Michelangelo's most enduring masterpiece, the Sistine Chapel, which he painted for over four years lying on his back, has a number of anecdotes ...